wizened

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Dried up and covered in wrinkles, usually because of old age.

   The wizened old farmer had spent his whole life working in the sun.

From wizen + -ed. Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōjaną. Cognate with Icelandic visna.

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